Alberta Slip Base glaze on red stoneware.

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Comment by Chantay Poulsen on July 29, 2015 at 11:15am

Norm,

I think it needs to be applied pretty thin.  I think the Alberta Slip you have would look more similar if very thin.  I have a terrible time with glaze thickness.  I have a couple that need to be thick and some very thin.  I always have to do a couple of test firings with new glazes to find how it is suppose to go on.

Jeff,

No, I didn't have any problems with cracking or peeling.  Went on very nicely.  I also calcined part of the Alberta Slip.  I just put it in a big bowl in the bisque fire.  I calcine part of my EPK for my kiln wash.  I have bowls I use that were chipped in bisque and never glazed.  I have refired them about six times now.

Comment by Jeff Poulter on July 28, 2015 at 1:27pm

Make sure and post some pics when its done.  I'm going to try layering a couple of Ravenscrag recipes, but I'll have to wait until I fix my kiln. Got the relays replaced, but now I kilned one of the elements, but thats a whole nuther story!  jhp

Comment by Chantay Poulsen on July 28, 2015 at 12:27pm
Jeff,
I calcined part of the Alberta Slip. It went on wonderfully. I got it to thick on the test tiles and it still looked good. Mixing up big batches today.
Comment by Jeff Poulter on July 28, 2015 at 11:21am

Chantay,

    Did you have any problems with the dry glaze cracking or peeling or crawling in the firing? I remember seeing the recipes saying to calcine half of the slip.  I didn't want to do that so I either used Ravenscrag 100%(you don't have to calcine it) or I would mix the Alberta & Ravenscrag 50/50 in the recipe. They always came out nice. I have also used Ohio slip which they say is very close to Albany slip.  It worked really well also.  jhp

Comment by Norm Stuart on July 21, 2015 at 11:02pm

I think we're going to buy some Alberta Slip on our next order. That's nice looking - a lot more interesting than this electrical pole insulator brown that our vintage bag of Albany Slip creates - shown here at cone 6 with the addition of 20% lithium carbonate.

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It has the same yellow crystallization we get with Vee's Tenmoku Gold using the Digitalfire formula to make our own replacement Cornwall Stone.

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